From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 10:47:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27217 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27211 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21367; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:58:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdW21365; Sat Jan 9 20:58:41 1999 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:58:35 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Poul-Henning Kamp , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-Reply-To: <199901092037.MAA00944@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAB27212 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk add the conditional to remove the string if not required, and just do it. A 1 line description can say a lot including "(see tcp(4))" or whatever. On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > OK, let's just ignore that somebody has spent time and effort to > > produce actual, working, value-adding code, since we already have > > vaporware which may or may not become real code some day, and may save > > us from a 0.04% increaseš of the size of the kernel at the expense of > > adding yet more complexity to an already burdened build system. > > > > Thanks for the statistic; I think this makes a great case for Just > Doing It. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message